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Recent Examples of outwardly
Suarez has outwardly become more conservative during his tenure, including a visit to the southern border in early 2024.
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Miami Herald, 10 Dec. 2025
Quiet cracking has recently been used to describe employees who outwardly appear to be present but are actually fracturing inside, feeling stretched thin and withdrawing energy from the work that once animated them.
—Jon Rosemberg, Fortune, 9 Dec. 2025
These are huge scale productions completed for under $10 million, completely independent and outwardly audacious.
—David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 24 Nov. 2025
Jana is not outwardly calling for a management change and White may even be the best person to lead a standalone CooperSurgical business.
—Kenneth Squire, CNBC, 15 Nov. 2025
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Miami Herald, 10 Dec. 2025
Quiet cracking has recently been used to describe employees who outwardly appear to be present but are actually fracturing inside, feeling stretched thin and withdrawing energy from the work that once animated them.
—Jon Rosemberg, Fortune, 9 Dec. 2025
These are huge scale productions completed for under $10 million, completely independent and outwardly audacious.
—David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 24 Nov. 2025
Jana is not outwardly calling for a management change and White may even be the best person to lead a standalone CooperSurgical business.
—Kenneth Squire, CNBC, 15 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for outwardly
Adverb
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This is a good year to work and build structures both externally and internally.—
Georgia Nicols,
Denver Post,
11 Jan. 2026
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Even with Snelling’s leadership strength, and no political interference, implementation of the new policy will be a challenge internally and externally.—
John Schmidt,
Chicago Tribune,
9 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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Carson later recalled walking into the kitchen the next morning to see his father visibly shaken at the dining room table.—
Nasha Smith,
PEOPLE,
9 Jan. 2026
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Host Jimmy Fallon visibly cringed in response.—
Emlyn Travis,
Entertainment Weekly,
9 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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As usual, Coon thrives in ambiguity, layering a seemingly straightforward woman with depth.—
Shania Russell,
Entertainment Weekly,
9 Jan. 2026
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Good briefly put the vehicle in reverse, then shifted into drive and hit the gas, with the wheels seemingly turned to the right instead of directly ahead toward Ross.—
Allison Gordon,
CNN Money,
9 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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Former assemblywoman Autumn Burke was also apparently considering a run for lieutenant governor this year.—
Nicole Nixon,
Sacbee.com,
11 Jan. 2026
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Reuters reported that the claim about al-Shabab apparently made its way to Trump via several Republican lawmakers.—
David Ingram,
NBC news,
11 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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In the 12 and a half years since Sir Alex Ferguson retired and the two since Sir Jim Ratcliffe assumed control of the club’s football operations, United have evidently not become a better football club.—
James Horncastle,
New York Times,
10 Jan. 2026
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Her purchase evidently did not yield snake oil.—
Tamim Alnuweiri,
InStyle,
7 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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But for now, the people holding the guns and ostensibly running the country are not her supporters, but Nicolás Maduro's.—
Duarte Dias,
CBS News,
5 Jan. 2026
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Patience is ostensibly a requirement for 21st century Dolphins fans, and more again will be needed.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
5 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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The most famous, perhaps, was of lung cancer patient David Prueitt, who swallowed a supposedly lethal dose of medication and awoke three days later.—
Teri Sforza,
Oc Register,
9 Jan. 2026
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But as Robby is (supposedly) on his way out, some fresh faces are navigating their very first day in the fray of the Pitt.—
Megan McCluskey,
Time,
8 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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From the perspective of a world of increasingly unimaginable maldistribution of resources, cascading ecological collapse, a genocide cheered on by a putatively liberal order, both are barbarisms.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025
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“Outwardly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outwardly. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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